Those failures, and now the guarantee of further slaughter in the Middle East, should be prompting hard questions about Bush and his war on terror.
By refusing the guarantee of further public funding for the garden bridge, Khan has effectively pulled the plug: since major private donors have pulled out, the project has a £70m funding gap and its planning permission expires in December.
It would be foolhardy, however, to ignore the more sober note from Russia's deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, who said on Wednesday that the two sides are far apart and that there was no guarantee of further progress.
"There's no dealing in smoky back rooms," he explains, "you can always tell who has supported what".Interesting internal infrastructure, though, is no guarantee of further political gains.
Anecdotal evidence suggests that a growing number of Greeks, particularly from the center and center-left, are considering sacrificing personal ideology to support conservative New Democracy as the only "guarantee" of further foreign aid and eurozone membership and to ensure Syriza is kept out of power.
Taxpayers would get a renovated stadium and 5% of the money from naming rights, but no guarantee of further income.
They have done this over the last 10 days, however, so today's move is not a guarantee of a further drop.
By June, the squadrons had reached Algiers and peace was negotiated with the Dey, including a return of captured vessels and men, a guarantee of no further tributes and a right to trade in the region.
If the vote is successful, the minority is still guaranteed thirty hours of further debate.
